M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

The latest conflict in eastern Congo has exposed endemic weaknesses in the country’s military, long known for corruption, extortion and abuse.

It’s believed more than 150 women prisoners were killed in the fire which broke out. An unknown number of children also died. Warning: this pod contains description of violence from the beginning.

Two days earlier, the deputy head of the United Nations mission in the DRC, Vivian van de Perre, had reported that some "2,000 bodies [had] been recovered from the streets of Goma [in the] last ...

On Wednesday, M23 broke a unilateral cease-fire it had declared days earlier and captured a village in Goma’s neighboring province of South Kivu. A map of Africa highlights two countries ...

Dozens of mpox patients being treated in hospital isolation units in Goma have fled for their lives ... 1,348 laboratory-confirmed mpox cases in DRC this year until February 2, with no deaths.